Done.

Nick

On Feb 19, 2014, at 6:17 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote:

> thanks Nick for your work!
> 
> Could you send the announcement also to:
> [email protected]
> [email protected]
> 
> I think the later one requires an apache.org mail adress.
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> 
> On 16 Feb 2014, at 21:19, Nick Williams wrote:
> 
>> The Apache Log4j 2 team is proud to announce the Log4j 2.0-rc1 release!
>> 
>> Apache Log4j is a well known framework for logging application behavior. 
>> Log4j 2 is an upgrade to Log4j that provides significant improvements over 
>> its predecessor, Log4j 1.x, and provides many of the improvements available 
>> in Logback while fixing some inherent problems in Logback's architecture.
>> 
>> This is the twelfth release and first release candidate of Log4j 2 and is 
>> being made available to encourage use and feedback from the community. Rapid 
>> feedback is especially critical at this point since a general availability 
>> release is on the horizon.
>> 
>> Bug fixes and enhancements
>> 
>> This release contains several changes that break binary and backwards 
>> compatibility with previous versions. Please read the release notes 
>> correctly so that you can adjust your usage of Log4j 2, if necessary.
>> 
>> Changes in this version include:
>> 
>> New features:
>> o LOG4J2-530:  (JMX) JMX Client GUI should dynamically update when 
>> LoggerContext MBeans are registered/unregistered in MBean server.
>> o LOG4J2-479:  ThreadContext now uses plain ThreadLocal by default, unless 
>> system property isThreadContextMapInheritable has value "true". Thanks to MK.
>> o LOG4J2-481:  Add Stream interface to Loggers. Thanks to Matt Sicker.
>> o LOG4J2-482:  Documentation fix: The attribute of Route to refer to an 
>> appender is "ref" not "AppenderRef". Thanks to Hongdi Ren.
>> o LOG4J2-467:  Added option to toggle Thread name caching in AsyncLogger. 
>> Thanks to Anthony Baldocchi.
>> o LOG4J2-423:  Added MBeans for instrumenting AsyncAppenders and AsyncLogger 
>> RingBuffers, exposing queue size, remaining capacity and other attributes.
>> o LOG4J2-420:  Create a lookup for resource bundle substitution.
>> o LOG4J2-415:  Format log event time as UNIX time (seconds or milliseconds).
>> o LOG4J2-401:  Configure FileAppender buffer size.
>> o LOG4J2-402:  Configure RandomAccessFileAppender buffer size.
>> 
>> Fixed Bugs:
>> o LOG4J2-500:  (JMX - ObjectNames changed!) Unloading one web application 
>> unloads JMX MBeans for all web applications.
>> o LOG4J2-531:  Fixed bugs where rolled log files were overwritten by 
>> RollingFile appender with composite time and size based policies. Thanks to 
>> Geoff Ballinger.
>> o LOG4J2-475:  Changed the MongoDBConnection to add a MongoDB encoding hook 
>> instead of a decoding hook. Thanks to Matt Sicker.
>> o LOG4J2-489:  Fixed the JPAAppender's overuse of transactions by connecting 
>> (borrowing from pool) on new write internal or on flush.
>> o LOG4J2-457:  Fixed failure of JDBC and JPA appender to properly release 
>> database connections by connecting (borrowing from pool) on new write 
>> internal or on flush.
>> o LOG4J2-442:  Fixed problem with JDBC and JPA appender connectivity in 
>> WebSphere by connecting (borrowing from pool) on new write internal or on 
>> flush.
>> o LOG4J2-438:  Ensured the JDBCAppender commits transactions after a single 
>> write or a flush of multiple writes.
>> o LOG4J2-407:  Fixed inability to recover from lost database connection in 
>> database appenders by connecting (borrowing from pool) on new write internal 
>> or on flush.
>> o LOG4J2-511:  Stop AsyncLoggerConfig Disruptor thread(s), then 
>> AsyncAppender thread(s) first before stopping other appenders. Thanks to 
>> James Pretorius.
>> o LOG4J2-392:  Stop AsyncLoggerConfig Disruptor thread(s), then 
>> AsyncAppender thread(s) first before stopping other appenders. Thanks to 
>> ilynaf, Andre Bogus.
>> o LOG4J2-345:  (OSGi) logging.log4j-1.2-api doesn't export the log4j API 
>> 1.2. Dependent bundles can not be resolved. Thanks to Roland Weiglhofer, 
>> Matt Sicker.
>> o LOG4J2-523:  LocalizedMessage serialization is broken.
>> o LOG4J2-385:  Fixed issues with time-based file rollover (monthly, weekly, 
>> hourly and every minute). Thanks to Ace Funk, Porfirio Partida.
>> o LOG4J2-452:  Added a ServletContext attribute that, when set to "true", 
>> disables Log4j's auto-initialization in Servlet 3.0+ web applications.
>> o LOG4J2-512:  Exposed Log4j web support interface and methods and the 
>> LoggerContext through ServletContext attributes so that threads not affected 
>> by filters (such as asynchronous threads) can utilize the LoggerContext. 
>> Also updated the Log4j filter so that it supports async. Thanks to Chandra 
>> Sekhar Kakarla, Matt Sicker.
>> o LOG4J2-409:  Created a utility to properly escape backslashes before 
>> creating URIs, and changed URI creation to use the utility instead of 
>> instantiating URI directly. Thanks to Frank Steinmann, Thomas Neidhart.
>> o LOG4J2-344:  Changed the Servlet 3.0 auto-initializer to add the filter by 
>> class to get around a WebLogic bug. Thanks to Keir Lawson, Tomasz Wladzinski.
>> o LOG4J2-359:  Changed the Servlet 3.0 auto-initializer so that it does 
>> nothing in a Servlet 2.5 or older application. This ensures behavioral 
>> consistency across containers. This includes additional fixes to abort 
>> initialization if a duplicate filter already exists and to check the actual 
>> Servlet EFFECTIVE version. Thanks to Abhinav Shah.
>> o LOG4J2-517:  Switch in log4j-1.2-api Category.getEffectiveLevel has no 
>> cases for FATAL, OFF.
>> o LOG4J2-406:  (JMX) Unregister all log4j JMX MBeans when the LoggerContext 
>> is stopped to allow web application classes to be GC-ed on undeploy. Thanks 
>> to Kerrigan Joseph.
>> o LOG4J2-405:  Configuration was being processed twice at startup.
>> o LOG4J2-398:  Configure properties and setup Interpolator before processing 
>> rest of configuration.
>> o LOG4J2-470:  hostName property was not being set until after the first 
>> configuration element.
>> o LOG4J2-464:  Support arrays as sub-elements of a JSON configuration.
>> o LOG4J2-492:  (JMX) Fixed MalformedObjectNameException if context name 
>> contains '=' or newline characters. Thanks to Shaddy Baddah, Herlani Junior.
>> o LOG4J2-377:  (OSGi) Fix NPE during shutdown. Thanks to Roland Weiglhofer, 
>> Matt Sicker.
>> o LOG4J2-463:  Fixed documentation for MyApp example application in the 
>> Automatic Configuration section Thanks to Michael Diamond, Matt Sicker.
>> o LOG4J2-408:  Fixed error in documentation code example in 
>> manual/eventlogging.html Thanks to Dongqing Hu, Matt Sicker.
>> o LOG4J2-451:  Fixed typo in documentation: system property should be 
>> log4j2.loggerContextFactory Thanks to Vinay Pothnis, Matt Sicker.
>> o LOG4J2-443:  Fixed issue where log4j2 LoggerContext did not show up in JMX 
>> GUI or JConsole. Thanks to Colin Froggatt, Tudor Har.
>> o LOG4J2-485:  Fixed issue where toString methods that perform logging could 
>> deadlock AsyncAppender.
>> o LOG4J2-445:  ResolverUtil cannot find packages in file URLs which include 
>> the '+' character. Thanks to Anthony Baldocchi.
>> o LOG4J2-430:  Use the formatted Message in RFC5424Layout for 
>> non-StructuredDataMessages. Thanks to David Gstir.
>> o LOG4J2-459:  Set external context when constructing the LoggerContext.
>> o LOG4J2-466:  Cannot load log4j2 config file if path contains plus '+' 
>> characters. Thanks to Jan Tepke.
>> o LOG4J2-462:  Fix LogEvent to never return null Level, fixes 
>> LevelPatternConverter.format may throw NPE. Thanks to Daisuke Baba.
>> o LOG4J2-465:  Fix LogEvent to never return null Level, fixes 
>> ThresholdFilter throws NPE. Thanks to Daisuke Baba.
>> o LOG4J2-471:  Fixed issue where toString methods that perform logging could 
>> deadlock AsyncLogger. Thanks to Anthony Baldocchi.
>> o LOG4J2-478:  The message and ndc fields are not JavaScript escaped in 
>> JSONLayout. Thanks to Michael Friedmann..
>> o LOG4J2-455:  RingBufferLogEvent should return Message timestamp for 
>> TimestampMessage messages. Thanks to Robin Zhang Tao.
>> o LOG4J2-477:  NPE in ClassLoaderContextSelector. Thanks to Tal Liron.
>> o LOG4J2-454:  TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy should use event time millis. 
>> Thanks to Robin Zhang Tao.
>> o LOG4J2-472:  BaseConfiguration class does not properly implement 
>> Configuration interface. Thanks to Tal Liron.
>> o LOG4J2-447:  XMLLayout does not include marker name. Thanks to Jeff 
>> Hudren, Mark Paluch, Scott Deboy.
>> o LOG4J2-323:  Resolved memory leak by releasing reference to ThreadLocal 
>> when AsyncLogger is stopped.
>> o LOG4J2-425:  Resolved memory leak by populating AsyncLoggerConfigHelper 
>> ring buffer via EventTranslatorTwoArg, eliminating the need for a 
>> ThreadLocal.
>> o LOG4J2-417:  Fix Event Level / LoggerConfig Level table at the 
>> architecture documentation page.
>> o LOG4J2-404:  @EnterpriseNumber" was missing in the ID of structured data 
>> when RFC5424Layout is used Thanks to Kamal Bahadur.
>> o LOG4J2-379:  Fixed issue that prevented Log4J from working in Google App 
>> Engine.
>> 
>> Changes:
>> o Renamed the org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.nosql.mongo package 
>> to org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.nosql.mongodb.
>> o Renamed the org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.nosql.couch package 
>> to org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.db.nosql.couchdb.
>> o LOG4J2-507:  Space Level numbers by 100 instead of 1.
>> o LOG4J2-41:  Add support for custom logging levels. Thanks to Nick Williams.
>> o LOG4J2-490:  Update EasyMock to version 3.2. Thanks to Matt Sicker.
>> o LOG4J2-453:  Update Flume Appender to use Flume 1.4.0.
>> o LOG4J2-528:  Rename package 
>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.helper to 
>> org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.rolling.action.
>> o LOG4J2-532:  Resource leak in Flume appender when it cannot create a 
>> BerkeleyDB db.
>> 
>> Apache Log4j 2.0-rc1 requires a minimum of Java 6 to build and run. Basic 
>> compatibility with Log4j 1.x is provided through the log4j-1.2-api 
>> component, however it does not implement some of the very implementation 
>> specific classes and methods. The package names and Maven group ID have been 
>> changed to org.apache.logging.log4j to avoid any conflicts with Log4j 1.x.
>> 
>> For complete information on Apache Log4j 2, including instructions on how to 
>> submit bug reports, patches, or suggestions for improvement, see the Apache 
>> Apache Log4j 2 website:
>> 
>> http://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.x/
>> 
>> (Special thanks to all the PMC members who helped me complete my first (and 
>> rather rocky) release!)
> 
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